We said goodbye, for now, to Ms. Musser! Some of our work on Harry Potter and Pancakes for Breakfast. Students had fun playing with oobleck and learning what objects would sink or float! Properties of Matter: students thought of one adjective to describe each object on the floor, then identified these adjectives as properties of matter. Comparing an Egg Shell to Tooth Decay after we had a visit from the dentist Terrarium Writing and Geometry Work Valentine's Celebration! Geography Experiments 100th Day of School! The students were able to complete two STEM projects over the last two weeks. 1. The first challenge was for students to build a model of the Great Wall of China. It had to remain standing when pressure was applied. This was a great introduction to STEM challenges and the students practiced working together in small groups. 2. The second challenge enriched students knowledge of geometric solids. Students used a piece of paper to create a cylinder, rectangular prism, and a triangular prism. The students then recorded how many books each shape could hold and recorded the data on a bar graph. Students learned that the cylinder was the strongest shape. Students draw fabulous pictures that go with their scrambled sentences. The Veterans' Festival was a success. Thank you to all those that participated! Students are getting ready for the Veterans' Festival! Please plan on coming this Friday at 4:30 pm. We have also started studying skeletons and the solar system. Our parts of plant salad was a success. We are grateful for the volunteers that came to help us cut up our fruits and vegetables. Many students were able to taste ground cherries for the first time and ALL students helped prepare the salad. Students also cut pictures from magazines that showed how plants help us in our lives.
Welcome back to a new school year! We are working hard and enjoying being back in school. Here are some pictures of work we have done. We have been learning about the importance of plants and how they provide many important essentials for us.
We have also been learning our shapes.
Spring Festival 2015
The invitations for festival have been sent home.
Students are working on their projects for the Fall Festival!They are excited to share what they are learning about the desert.
Third grade students are learning perimeter and area.
Now we are visiting Mexico. Our class has been creating yarn art masterpieces. Some students are making desert scenes to use in our festival work about the desert biome.
While studying North America, our class is visiting Canada. We are learning about the totem poles that were created by the Natives and the stories they tell. To understand how a totem pole was carved, we are using sharp rocks to carve potatoes.
For St. Patrick's Day, we tried to make a rainbow in a jar. Using food coloring and liquids with different weights, we created layers in the jar that resembled a rainbow. This was very exciting!
The students learned how to plant seeds and care for a plant.We are anxiously waiting for the parsley seeds to sprout. Fall Festival is just around the corner. We are preparing our invitations and will send them home this week.Please mark your calendars to come to Fall Festival on November 21st.
Our pumpkin seeds sprouted, which was very exciting. We were also able to talk about how the pumpkin was starting to decompose. Since it was getting moldy and yucky, we pulled out our sprouts and re-planted them. They are growing so big now in our containers. The other picture shows what the inside of the pumpkin looked like. It was fascinating to see all the seeds growing at different intervals. For the month of October we have planted pumpkin seeds inside of a pumpkin and are anxiously awaiting to see if they sprout. While preparing our pumpkin, we took the opportunity to learn about the different parts of a pumpkin. Just like Jack in the Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne, students took the opportunity to make notes in their botany folders. Students drew pictures and labeled the different parts of the pumpkin. Older students drew the life cycle of the pumpkin and predicted what would happen once we added soil and water to the seeds inside of the pumpkin.
Each day students anxiously look inside of the pumpkin in search of a sprout.
We will keep you posted on the progress of our pumpkin!
In September we learned about swollen roots. The carrots are conical roots, the beet and turnip are napiform roots, the daikon radish is a fusiform root, and the sweet potato is similar to the shape of a tuberous root. Students loved tasting each root. It was a fun and engaging learning experience.
We understand the importance of having a peaceful classroom. If we want to keep our classroom peaceful, then it must begin with each of us. The students drew some beautiful self portraits.
Some of our work on Harry Potter and Pancakes for Breakfast.
Students had fun playing with oobleck and learning what objects would sink or float!
Properties of Matter: students thought of one adjective to describe each object on the floor, then identified these adjectives as properties of matter.
Comparing an Egg Shell to Tooth Decay after we had a visit from the dentist
Terrarium
Writing and Geometry Work
Valentine's Celebration!
Geography Experiments
100th Day of School!
The students were able to complete two STEM projects over the last two weeks.
1. The first challenge was for students to build a model of the Great Wall of China. It had to remain standing when pressure was applied. This was a great introduction to STEM challenges and the students practiced working together in small groups.
2. The second challenge enriched students knowledge of geometric solids. Students used a piece of paper to create a cylinder, rectangular prism, and a triangular prism. The students then recorded how many books each shape could hold and recorded the data on a bar graph. Students learned that the cylinder was the strongest shape.
Students draw fabulous pictures that go with their scrambled sentences.
The Veterans' Festival was a success. Thank you to all those that participated!
Students are getting ready for the Veterans' Festival! Please plan on coming this Friday at 4:30 pm.
We have also started studying skeletons and the solar system.
Our parts of plant salad was a success. We are grateful for the volunteers that came to help us cut up our fruits and vegetables. Many students were able to taste ground cherries for the first time and ALL students helped prepare the salad. Students also cut pictures from magazines that showed how plants help us in our lives.
Welcome back to a new school year! We are working hard and enjoying being back in school. Here are some pictures of work we have done. We have been learning about the importance of plants and how they provide many important essentials for us.
We have also been learning our shapes.
Spring Festival 2015The invitations for festival have been sent home.
Students are working on their projects for the Fall Festival!They are excited to share what they are learning about the desert.
Third grade students are learning perimeter and area.
Now we are visiting Mexico. Our class has been creating yarn art masterpieces. Some students are making desert scenes to use in our festival work about the desert biome.
While studying North America, our class is visiting Canada. We are learning about the totem poles that were created by the Natives and the stories they tell. To understand how a totem pole was carved, we are using sharp rocks to carve potatoes.
The students learned how to plant seeds and care for a plant.We are anxiously waiting for the parsley seeds to sprout.
Fall Festival is just around the corner. We are preparing our invitations and will send them home this week.Please mark your calendars to come to Fall Festival on November 21st.
For the month of October we have planted pumpkin seeds inside of a pumpkin and are anxiously awaiting to see if they sprout. While preparing our pumpkin, we took the opportunity to learn about the different parts of a pumpkin. Just like Jack in the Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne, students took the opportunity to make notes in their botany folders. Students drew pictures and labeled the different parts of the pumpkin. Older students drew the life cycle of the pumpkin and predicted what would happen once we added soil and water to the seeds inside of the pumpkin.
Each day students anxiously look inside of the pumpkin in search of a sprout.
We will keep you posted on the progress of our pumpkin!
In September we learned about swollen roots. The carrots are conical roots, the beet and turnip are napiform roots, the daikon radish is a fusiform root, and the sweet potato is similar to the shape of a tuberous root. Students loved tasting each root. It was a fun and engaging learning experience.